Gurnee Park District actions this year made Eileen Fiddyment and others angry enough to circulate petitions to get a referendum question on the November ballot that will ask
voters whether the district should be dissolved.
The three referendum questions proposed by the district would ask
voters whether the district should build a $ 4.5 million swimming facility; whether the district should buy land to the east of Newton Park for expansion; and whether a task force should be formed to study the need, best location and financial alternatives of a new pool facility.
Not exact matches
NEW LENOX — A survey of New Lenox Park
District voters will help officials decide
whether to try again for a bond issue to build a recreation center.
But the April 3 ballot measure asking
voters to pay for the last 12 - acre parcel of the Dole estate and its 150 - year - old Italianate house has some residents questioning
whether the Crystal Lake Park
District belongs in the historic preservation business.
Downers Grove
voters also will determine
whether their park
district can kick in about $ 3 million to buy 33 acres of open space at Highland Avenue and 31st Street near the Lyman Woods Forest Preserve.
The proposed referendum question would be advisory only and ask
voters whether up to $ 300,000 should be transferred from village coffers to the Park
District each year for the next 15 years to help pay for a pool.
Cary —
Voters in the Cary Park
District will decide in November
whether to purchase a 78 - acre parcel for an aquatic park and ball fields.
NAPERVILLE — The Naperville Park
District has scheduled a special workshop session for this week to determine
whether to seek a referendum in April to ask
voters to pay for a new recreation center.
No substantial vote tallies were available for a proposal for
voters in unincorporated Plum Grove Estates, who were asked
whether they wished to be annexed into the Rolling Meadows Park
District.
And if the answer is no, then
whether the
voters would support the creation of a park
district,» Zirk said.
While New Trier and the park
district have yet to make a final decision of
whether or not to place the referendum requests on the November ballot, officials from both organizations said they are talking to each other and understand the potential challenges of asking
voters to support two measures in one election.
The Open Land Association in Downers Grove, a citizens group trying to prevent the development of land at the southwest corner of 59th and Main Streets, apparently has forced the Park
District to let
voters decide
whether $ 7 million in bonds should be sold to fund a new recreation facility.
Village President Rick Zirk is considering a referendum question, possibly for November, asking
voters whether they want the village to continue to spend money on recreation or
whether a separate park
district should be created.
Tinley Park Park
District officials won't know until election day
whether they will win
voter approval for construction of the 65,000 - square - foot building.
It's up to Cuomo to decide
whether to appoint Singas, or someone else, as
district attorney to fill in until November, when
voters make a choice.
It's unclear
whether the
voter data is from Espada's
district office or just labeled that way as part of the general melding of the Espada campaign with constituent services.
Voters in the Nassau County Senate
district formerly represented by Dean Skelos could determine
whether Democrats gain total control of state government pending the outcome of a special election behind held today.
Earlier in the week Lamb said one of his biggest challenges this campaign was making sure
voters know
whether or not they are in this newly drawn
district.
If they get it passed in Albany, the question of
whether to create the
district would be put to the county's
voters.
Mechanicville is just one of the more than half - dozen local
districts where
voters will decide Tuesday
whether to spend the money on hiring a full - time school resource officer.
It's
districts like NY - 19 that will help determine
whether or not Democrats take back the House despite the undemocratic obstacles — like extreme gerrymandering and
voter suppression laws that Republicans have erected nationwide in recent years.
As our Matt Hunter reports, in a number of Capital Region
districts,
voters will be deciding
whether to spend the money to have a full - time police officer stationed at the school.
Don't forget that state Rep. Mike Weaver (D), who is running against Rep. Ron Lewis (R) in Kentucky's 2nd
district, told your Ramblers on day one that
voters should question
whether the price at the pump is being manipulated.
The incumbents in the
districts surveyed scored 43 percent or below when
voters were asked
whether they deserved reelection, with some in the low to mid-30s, according to the DCCC missive, which didn't say what the
districts were.
While the 1st Congressional
District has traditionally been flipped in mid-term election years, the current political climate makes it difficult to predict
whether it could turn Democrat again without the boost in
voter turnout typically seen in a presidential election year, when the party benefits from increased participation by minority and female
voters.
But the Supreme Court has never resolved
whether voting
districts should have the same number of people, or the same number of eligible
voters.
In October, Cuomo told the Freeman that he had no plans to seek changes to the cap rule and it was up to school
district voters to decide
whether proposed budgets are appropriate.
Consensus is proposing that
voters decide
whether to create this new government, made up of 29 legislative
districts and four at - large seats along with an executive elected by
voters.
ALBANY — The Democratic candidate for Troy's 2nd City Council
District has a two - vote lead over a veteran Republican councilman with the final election results hanging on
whether three unopened absentee ballots cast by Republican
voters will be counted.
Democrats held a 12 - point advantage among registered
voters in the January Post-ABC News poll when asked
whether they would support a Democrat or Republican in their
district.
Next week, Lipinski will find out
whether voters in Illinois's third congressional
district on Chicago's southwest side feel there's still room for him in the Democratic Party.
This month,
voters must decide
whether they will help the 76,000 - student
district pay the $ 1.4 billion bill to replace aging roofs, faulty wiring, rotted windows, malfunctioning boilers, and a host of other chronic building problems facing the Cleveland public schools.
We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study
whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in
district schools.
Crucially this requires local
voters to vote on
whether the School
District should take on the debt, and on the intended use of the money.
One wonders, then,
whether the relatively small number of
voters who show up on election day share the general views of other
district residents.
On Election Day,
voters in 31 school
districts around the state will decide
whether to raise property taxes to pump an additional $ 1 billion into the school system in the form of bond issues for buildings or mill levy overrides for operating budgets.
Some
voters will question
whether the urban
districts deserve anything more than the funding that is due to them based on the number of students they teach.
The city attorney's office, the FBI, and the
district attorney's office are conducting separate investigations into how millions of dollars in
voter - approved bond funds for new facilities and renovations were used, and
whether there was criminal wrongdoing.
The three largest school
districts in the state are taking different approaches on
whether or not to authorize charter schools, approved by state
voters in November.
The committee, whose first meeting is Feb. 21, would also look at the best ways to break up school
districts, including
whether to require a referendum by
voters.
When
voters were asked
whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school
districts, or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they....
When
voters were asked
whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school
districts (as the law currently allows), or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they should not be available anywhere.
When
voters were asked
whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school
districts, or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they should not be available anywhere.
LA Times 15 Candidates File to Run for LAUSD School Board Seats Officials have 10 days to verify
whether each has the signatures of at least 500 registered
voters from the candidate's
district.
I will be judged by the
voters on the number of high - performing schools in every neighborhood, not
whether those schools are
district or public charters.
These questions asked
voters how important they believed it was for elected school board members to receive formal professional development instruction in the laws and policies affecting public K - 12 school
districts and,
whether or not they favored legislation that would require a minimum level of such instruction.
Cerf also reiterated his longstanding opposition to allowing
voters in a school
district to decide
whether or not to approve a charter school, even though a bill that would require just that passed an Assembly committee last week.
The
district is poised to start work rebuilding 18 schools, and the central question is
whether voters will support two separate issues.